Taboo and Genetics eBook

Only within the past few years have the general phenomena
of intersexuality been cleared up to any considerable
extent—­naturally on the basis of the secretory
explanation of sex. This secretory or endocrine
idea has also given us an entirely new view of sex
differences. These are best discussed as functional
rather than as structural. To correlate this
material, we must next give a rude sketch of the quantitative
theory of sex.

CHAPTER III

SEX AND SEX DIFFERENCES AS QUANTITATIVE

Intersexes in moths; Bird intersexes; Higher metabolism
of males; Quantitative difference between sex factors;
Old ideas of intersexuality; Modern surgery and human
intersexes; Quantitative theory a Mendelian explanation;
Peculiar complication in the case of man; Chemical
life cycles of the sexes; Functional-reproductive period
and the sex problem; Relative significance of physiological
sex differences.